Annual Report 2004 Multimedia Systems and Applications Technical Committee IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Officers (Term: 01/01/2004 – 12/31/2005): Chairman: Dr./Prof. Wai-Chi Fang Secretary: Prof. Oscar Au (Past Chair: Prof. Liang-Gee Chen) 1. TC Meeting: The last TC Annual Meeting was held on July 9, 2003, Wednesday, 12:15 to 13:45 at Marriott Waterfront Hotel, during the IEEE 2003 International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME2003), Baltimore, Maryland, USA, July 6-9, 2003. 2. Conferences or workshops: Conferences or workshops where the MSA TC or members of the TC was/were actively involved in 2003 include the followings: 2.1. 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Bangkok, Thailand, May 25-28, 2003. Report on ISCAS 2003: ISCAS 2003 was held on May 25-28, 2003 at Bangkok, Thailand. The submission was quite good. There were more than 1800 submissions, compared with 1448 for ISCAS 2002. The submission related to Multimedia Systems and Applications grew very big. There were 186 submissions, compared with 74 submissions in year 2002. We needed to reject 75 submissions. Unfortunately, due to the SARS disease, many authors and presenters withdraw their plan at the last moment. The attendee of ISCAS was only around 600 persons. Many papers were no-show. The BOG meeting of CAS and our TC meeting were also cancelled because too few members could come. There were two special sessions organized by our members. One was “Security and Data Hiding” by Yun Q. Shi, Oscar Au and Jiwu Huang. The other one was “Multimedia Transmission” by Jie Chen. Each session had 11 papers. 2.2. 2003 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, Baltimore, Maryland,6-9, 2003. Report on ICME2003: (a) There were more than 760 papers submitted to ICME 2003 from 52 countries; 440 were accepted for presentation in either oral or poster sessions. Additionally, 150 papers from ICASSP 2003, cancelled due to SARS, were presented. Over 600 attended ICME 2003. (b) MSA TC members’ participations and contributions include: · Steering Committee: Yu-Hen Hu, Ming-Ting Sun, Oscar Au, Liang- Gee Chen, Tsuhan Chen · Technical Program Committee: Wai-Chi Fang, Peter Wu, Milind R. Naphade · Publicity Chair: Min Wu · Tutorial on "Multimedia Semantics and Machine Learning": Milind R. Naphade 2.3. 2003 International Workshop on Globalization Leadership in Circuits and Systems (IWGLCS 2003), May 29-30, 2003, Hsinchu City, Taiwan. (Chairs: Prof. Peter Wu and Dr. Bing Sheu) 2.4. International Symposium on Nano-Electronic Circuits and Giga-Scale Systems (ISNCGS), IEEE CASS, Feb. 12-13, 2004, Taiwan. (Chairs: Prof. Peter Wu and Dr. Bing Sheu) 2.5. US/Taiwan 2nd Summit Conference on Nano Technology and Si-Soft (SOC) Project, Nov. 8, 2003, Pasadena Hilton, Pasadena, California (Honorary Conference Chair: Dr. Che-Ho Wei, NSC, Taiwan; Technical Program Co-Chair: Dr. Wai-Chi Fang, JPL) 2.6. Symposium on AVS video compression standard for 3G, Mar 2004, Shenzhen, China (Co-Organizer : Prof. Oscar Au) 2.7. IEEE ICIP 2003 (TPC member and special session chair: Milind R. Naphade) 2.8. 2003 International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (TPC member: Milind R. Naphade) 2.9. SPIE ITCOM 2003, 2004 (TPC member: Milind R. Naphade) 2.10. IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition 2003, 2004 (TPC member: Milind R. Naphade) 2.11. National Science Foundation Panelist for ITR Multimedia Track 2003 (Milind R. Naphade) 2.12. Int. Conf. on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'03, Hong Kong), 2003 (TPC member: Oscar Au, Co-Organizer of Special Session on Multimedia Security and Rights Management: Min Wu) 2.13. ICC'04, ICIP'04, ICASSP'03-'04, MMSP'04 (TPC member: Min Wu) 3. On going Conferences or workshops On going Conferences or workshops where the MSA TC or members of the TC is/are actively involved include the followings: 3.1. 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Vancouver, Canada, May 23-26, 2004. Status Report on ISCAS2004: (a) There are a total of 108 papers submitted for the MSA Track in which 60 papers are accepted; 40 papers are accepted for 8 lecture sessions and 20 papers for 4 poster sessions. (b) MSA TC members’ participations and contributions include: - MSA Track Chair: Dr. Wai-Chi Fang; Co-Chair: Prof. Oscar Au - Technical Program Committee Members: Wai-Chi Fang, Oscar Au, Adriana Dumitras, Hui Cheng, Min Wu - Invited Panelist for Forum-II: Dr. Bing Sheu - Organizer of Special Session on Information Assurance and Data Hiding: Yun-Qing Shi (c) Review Committee Members (MSA Track): Oscar Au, Magdy Bayoumi , Liang-Gee Chen , Tsu-Han Chen, Chang Wen Chen, Jie , Oscal T.-C. Chen , Hui Cheng , Wai-Chi (Winston) Fang , Yuwen He , Hsiang-Cheh , JongWon Kim , Wen-Nung Lie , Chia-Wen , Ching-Yung , Bin-Da Liu , Chun-Shien Lu , Enrico Magli , Joern Ostermann , Peter Jeng-Shyang , Alessandro Piva , Ting Chuen Pong , Fabrizio Rovati , Goubin , Wan Chi, Man- Hung Siu , Ramalingam , Fabrizio Vacca , Jar-Ferr Yang (d) Session Chairs (MSA Track): Session Title: Multimedia Watermarking and Data Hiding Co-Chairs: Jeng-Shyang Pan, Hsiang-Cheh Huang Session Title: Advanced Multimedia Systems: End-to-End Frameworks Co-Chairs: Wai-Chi Fang and Jie Chen Session Title: Multimedia Database and Retrival Systems Co-Chairs: Wen-Nung Lie and Tsuhan Chen Session Title: Multimedia Communication and Transmission Co-Chairs: Chia-Wen Lin and Enrico Magli Session Title: Multimedia Coding and Segmentation Co-Chairs: Jar-Ferr Yang and Oscal Chen Session Title: Data Hiding and Watermarking Techiques for Multimedia Systems Chair: Yun-Qing Shi Session Title: Intelligent Processing Techniques for Multimedia Systems and Applications Chair: Chin-Teng Lin Session Title: Multimedia Understanding and Recognition Co-Chairs: Ching-Yung Lin and Hui Cheng Session Title: VLSI/SOC Implementation for Multimedia Systems (I) Co-Chairs: Bin-Da Liu and Fabrizio Rovati Session Title: Multimedia Systems and Applications: Advanced Techniques Co-Chairs: Oscar Au and Fabrizio Vacca Session Title: Communication and Coding Techniques for Multimedia Systems Chair: Chang Wen Chen Session Title: VLSI/SOC Implementation for Multimidia Sytems (II) Chair: Liang-Gee Chen 3.2. 2004 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, Taipei, Taiwan, Status Report on ICME2004: (a) ICME2004 International Advisory Board: Tsuhan Chen, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Peter Pirsch, University of Hannover, Germany Ming-Ting Sun, University of Washington,Seattle, USA (b) ICME2004 Technical Program Co-Chairs: Liang-Gee Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan (c) ICME2004 Tutorial Co-Chairs Yun-Qing Shi, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA (d) ICME2004 North America Liaison Chung-Sheng Li, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA (e) Area chair of ICME'2004: Adriana Dumitras 3.3. 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Kobe International Convention Center, Kobe, Japan, May 23-26, 2005. (MSA Track Chair: Dr. Wai-Chi Fang.) 3.4. Pacific Multimedia Conference in December 2003, Singapore (TPC member: Yun-Qing Shi) 3.5. International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing (ICICS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, December 2003 (TPC member: Yun-Qing Shi) 3.6. ICASSP'2004 (TPC member: Adriana Dumitras) 3.7 Workshop Organizer and Chair, Advanced Research and Development Agency Challenge Workshop on the Creation of a Large Scale Concept Ontology for Multimedia Understanding (Workshop Organizer and Chair: Milind R. Naphade) 3.8. National Science Foundation Panelist for ITR IDM 2004 (Milind R. Naphade) 3.9. 2004 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) (TPC member: Enrico Magli) 3.10. 2004 IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP) (TPC member: Enrico Magli) 4. IEEE CAS Distinguished Lecturer: Yun-Qing Shi(2002-2003). 5. Books and Book Chapters: J. S. Pan, H.-C. Huang, and L. C. Jain (editors), Intelligent Watermarking Techniques, World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore, Feb. 2004 (852 pages + 1 attached CD) (ISBN: 981-238-757-9). 6. Editorial Services: (a) Associate Editors for IEEE TCAS-I (‘02’-’03): Dr. Wai-Chi Fang, Prof. Oscar Au (b) Guest Editors for 2003 Special Issue on "Nanoelectronics and Nanoscale Signal Processing," Proceedings of IEEE: Dr. Bing Sheu, Profs. Peter Wu, and Simon Sze. ( Multimedia is one key area in Nanoelectronics Era.) (c) IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine, Developments in Nano-Giga Systems Column, Guest Editors: Dr. Bing Sheu and Prof. Peter Wu. (d) Guest Editors for 2004 Special Issue on "Advances in Video Coding and Delivery," Proceedings of the IEEE (to appear later in 2004): Ming-Ting Sun, Wenwu Zhu, Liang-Gee Chen, and Thomas Sikora. (e) Steering Committee member for IEEE Trans. on Multimedia in 2004: Oscar Au (f) Associate Editor of IEEE TCAS Part II since January 2004: Yun-Qing Shi (g) Guest editor for Special issue on Image Data Hiding, International Journal of Image and Graphics, 2003 (to appear in 2004): Yun-Qing Shi (h) Guest editor for Special issue on Multimedia Signal Processing (started in 2003, will finish soon, to appear in 2005): Yun-Qing Shi (i) Co-guest editor of the Special Issue in the EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing on "Analysis/Synthesis methods for wired and wirelesss multimedia on-demand applications", to appear 2005: Adriana Dumitras (j) Associate editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine: Adriana Dumitras (k) Editorial Advisory Board Member of International Journal on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information & Engineering System (IJKES): Hsiang-Cheh Huang (l) Guest Editor, Special Issue on Multimedia Security and Rights Management, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, to appear 2004: Min Wu 7. IEEE Services: (a) BoG Members of IEEE CAS Society (Prof. Peter Chung-Yu Wu, Dr. Wai-Chi Fang) (b) Professor Peter Chung-Yu Wu was elected as the Conference VP of IEEE CAS Society. (c) Dr. Bing Sheu serves as Chair of Constitutions & Bylaws Standing Committee for IEEE CAS Society during 2003 -2005.